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From: Bob Bernstein <[e-mail]>
Subject: BBS and Kermit
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Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 07:39:07 GMT
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My local bbs, a Wildcat board, now has a telnet node, so I have been
trying to access it and grab qwk packets with Kermit. With K95, and
using the board's zmodem protocol, the packets come through nicely.

If I set the board to use its kermit protocol, then the packets come
through mangled and can't be unzipped. This even if I set K95 to "robust"
mode.

I get the same result using Kermit for DOS on another machine, i.e. qwk
packets sent to me via kermit get corrupted in transit.

I do notice some oddness at the end of the d/l; it's as if the board isn't
sure the packet d/l has been completed. I don't see this using zmodem.

I'm doing all of this via ethernet to a Linux box connected to a cable modem.

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